Continuous directional water transport on the peristome surface of Nepenthes alata

Nature

Volumn 532, Issue 7597, 2016, Pages 85-89

  Chen, Huawei ^a   Zhang, Pengfei ^a   Zhang, Liwen ^a   Liu, Hongliang ^b   Jiang, Ying ^a   Zhang, Deyuan ^a   Han, Zhiwu ^c   Jiang, Lei ^a,b  

^a BEIHANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b TECHNICAL INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS AND CHEMISTRY   (China)

^c JILIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

WATER;

ANATOMY; CARNIVOROUS PLANT; ENERGY FLOW; FLUID; PRESSURE EFFECT; SURFACE ENERGY; TRANSLOCATION;

ARTICLE; CAPILLARY; CARNIVOROUS PLANT; FLOW; FLUID TRANSPORT; NEPENTHES ALATA; PREY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURFACE PROPERTY; VELOCITY; WATER TRANSPORT; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANGIOSPERM; ANIMAL; BIOMIMETICS; INSECT; METABOLISM; PLANT EPIDERMIS; TRANSPORT AT THE CELLULAR LEVEL; WATER FLOW;

NEPENTHES ALATA;

ANGIOSPERMS; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; BIOMIMETICS; INSECTS; PLANT EPIDERMIS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; WATER; WATER MOVEMENTS;

EID: 84963628470     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature17189     Document Type: Article

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